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. Installing third-party software
2.3 Power up the Quadro VCA.
Note
Ensure you are near the console and keyboard, or IPMI interface, connected to
the Quadro VCA node being reset.
2.4 As soon as the NVIDIA Logo screen is displayed, press F11 to invoke the Boot
menu.
2.5 From the Boot menu, select PMAP, which is the factory reset thumb drive.
Wait while the system boots from this USB device.
2.6 At the NVIDIA Logo screen, press Enter to install the Quadro VCA system soft-
ware.
2.7 After the
IRAY-SERVER login:
2.8 For each Quadro VCA node in the cluster, repeat steps 2.1 to 2.7.
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Installing third-party software
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Overview
To connect third-party software for use with the VCA Manager, perform the following steps:
1 Install the software under the Iray account to avoid permission problems.
2 Create a run script and copy it into
refer to
"Setting up a third-party run
3 Add the run script to the VCA Manager database, which stores all persistent informa-
tion. For more information, refer to
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Setting up a third-party run script
The following example is a simple run script for third-party software:
#!/bin/bash
trap 'killall -9
third-party-process
sh -c "
From the VCA Manager, a run script can get the following arguments:
Argument
Description
Unique multicast address for an allocated cluster
$1
Data connection port
$2
Head node IP address to which the client connects
$3
Head node (0,1)
$4
Size of the allocated cluster
$5
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/home/iray/cm/satellite
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third-party-process
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$1 $2 $3 $4 $5"
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prompt is displayed, remove the thumb drive.
script".
Software installation
. For more information,
database".
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